ONE PROPERTY GRAPH QUERY LANGUAGE

THE GQL MANIFESTO

It seems like the time is right to create one standard property graph query language. Fusing the best of Cypher, PGQL and G-CORE into a more comprehensive query language built specifically for graph solutions.

What is openCypher?

The openCypher project aims to deliver a full and open specification of
the industry’s most widely adopted graph database query language: Cypher.

Focus on Your Domain

Graphs naturally describe your domain, and Cypher lets you focus on that domain instead of
getting lost in the mechanics of data access. Both expressive and efficient,
Cypher is intuitive
and immediately familiar.

Human Readable

Cypher is a human-readable query language that makes common operations easy. A combination
of
English prose and intuitive iconography, Cypher is accessible to developers and
operations
professionals alike.

Complete Open Source Access

The openCypher project means you can use Cypher as your query language for graph processing
capabilities within any product or application. Databases like SAP HANA Graph, Redis, AgensGraph
and Neo4j all use the Cypher query language – now you can too.

The openCypher project aims to improve growth and adoption of graph processing and
analysis by providing an open graph query language to any data store, tooling or application
provider as
a mechanism to query graph data.

Get in touch or follow our activity through the following communication channels:

Most of our activity happens on the GitHub repository, where you may for example submit or comment on
CIRs (Cypher Improvement Requests).
The Slack link points to a sign-up page, which will give you an invitation to the neo4j-users Slack team, where we live in the #opencypher
channel.